8ball Emulator
| Filename | 8ball-emulator.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 261.1 KB (267375 bytes) |
| Mac OS | Mac OS 8Mac OS X |
| Downloads | 13 |
8-Ball Emulator is a 1993 Macintosh shareware desk toy by Scott Knudsen that puts a small pool table on the screen and lets the user shoot the balls down the holes. It is a tiny shooting-pool simulator rather than a Magic 8-Ball oracle, with simple aim and shot controls aimed at coffee-break play.
Gameplay
Click and drag from the cue ball to set angle and power, then release to break or pot. The table physics are deliberately simple, suited to the slower 68k Macs of the era.
Helpful options
The application includes an aim-assist line and an option to adjust the ball size, useful both for accessibility on small Mac Plus and SE screens and for tuning difficulty.
Author
Released by Scott Knudsen as a small shareware utility, 8-Ball Emulator is the kind of single-screen diversion that filled Mac shareware archives like Info-Mac and umich.edu in the early 1990s.
System
It is a fat 68k/PPC binary that runs on a Mac Plus or later, needs System 6.0.3 or later, and works through Mac OS 9 and under emulation today.
This file is part of the MacTrove archive. See the Thank You page for the upstream mirrors we rely on. It is BinHex encoded — use The Unarchiver to decode it.
